Li Qiang——China since 1981

"Li Qiang - China since 1981" collects classic photographs by photographer Li Qiang from 1981 to the present. The book contains three chapters: Northern Homeland, Distant Memory, and City Encounter. From his hometown of Liyaoxian in northern Shaanxi to Xi'an, where he works and lives, and then to Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macau in the south, Li Qiang uses black and white images to record the changes in the lifestyle and cultural landscape of this era. These photographs record the social landscape of the current accelerated industrialization and urbanization, criticize the destruction of nature and original civilization, and pay attention to the state of individual existence. This deep humanistic sentiment is placed in every frozen moment, allowing us to refocus on the freshness and touching of daily life that has long been commonplace. Li Qiang's influence on contemporary photography is not only reflected in his absolute adherence to his own aesthetic system, but also in his personal understanding between his hometown and modernity, and between himself and the times, providing a unique path for the innovation and expression of photographic language.

Li Qiang is a contemporary photographer, also engaged in calligraphy and painting. Born in Dingbian, Shaanxi Province in 1959. He studied painting by himself in his early years. In 1985, he entered the Photography Department of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts to study. Since 1998, he has taught in the Photography Department of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts. Li Qiang’s works focus on urban and rural life in China, especially the rural life in his hometown of northern Shaanxi, expressing the sadness of the disappearance of rural life in the process of urbanization. His images focus on life experience and are committed to the exploration of the non-material attributes of images. Since 1981, he

has successively taken series of photographic works such as “Rural Life in Northern Shaanxi”, “Passing”, “Distant Place”, “Witness Without Panorama” and “City Encounter”.

· This book is the second in the series of Chinese Photographic "Going-Global" Project. Li Qiang entered the public's field of vision with his hometown photography, and his works became a key for us to interpret the farming culture of northern Shaanxi. Now, after 40 years of photography, Li Qiang looks at the city and the distance from the land of his hometown. "Homesickness" is no longer just a remembrance of his hometown, but also a remembrance of the old customs. This is the "homesickness" unique to Chinese photography.

· Hardcover cloth, partial silver printing and customized black card inserts, rich details; 200g high-quality Prince matte powder paper, the paper texture is delicate, the color is restored, and it has high artistic value and collection value.

· Available in a regular edition and a collector's edition (limited to 300 sets worldwide) with an original signed photograph.

Regular Edition: 45 USD / 40 EUR (The first 300 copies are signed)

Collector's Edition: 140 USD / 130 EUR

* Collector's Edition is limited to 300 sets worldwide and comes in a gift box with a signed copy of the original artwork.